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Hundreds of journalists from around the world are at Astana, Kazakhstan today to cover the highly anticipated peace talks between the Syrian government and some rebel groups. Russia, Turkey, and Iran brokered the initiative to end the six-year conflict in Syria that displaced millions and left nearly 500,000 people dead.

The Kazakhstan-brokered peace talks at Astana on January 23-24 hopes to strengthen the December 29, 2016, ceasefire agreement on Syria to end the six-year upheaval in the country that displaced millions of Syrian population and killed nearly 500,000 people.

The United States has withdrawn its proposal for the solution to the conflict in the Syrian city of Aleppo, just as Moscow and Washington are preparing to discuss possible ways to end the war in the city, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Calls made by the London and Paris to stop the operation in eastern Aleppo look like an attempt to shelter and spare the terrorists which they are ‘overseeing’ who are on the verge of complete loss in the situation in the city, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow and Washington will discuss the possibility of militant withdrawal from the embattled city of Aleppo in Syria, which was part of the proposal made by United States Secretary of State John Kerry.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that the United Kingdom’s claims that Moscow in interfering with the process of delivering humanitarian aid to the Syrian city of Aleppo in groundless.